For six years, I paid off my stepson Tyler’s student loans.Forty thousand dollars.Every month, I transferred part of my paycheck into an account dedicated to those loans while pretending it didn’t hurt. I canceled vacations. I stopped buying new clothes unless absolutely necessary. I dipped into the savings account his father and I had planned to use for retirement. Some months, I worked overtime just to make sure Tyler never missed a payment.And I did it willingly.